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MACWORLD - Web flaw yields free MacWorld VIP pass

2008-01-16 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
For the second year running, security researcher Kurt Grutzmacher has found a way to get a free "Platinum" pass to the MacWorld Conference & Expo, being held in San Francisco this week
 
Tags: macworld conference, pass, free, san francisco, held, week, expo, platinum
 
 
 
 
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U.S. Congress should pass cyber-crime legislation this year -- when will the House of Representatives finally act?

2008-04-23 00:00:00 by Shannon Kellogg in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...pass legislation that would help empower law enforcement to more effectively investigate and prosecute cyber criminals -- while updating penalties in U.S. criminal code so that the punishment fits the crime. It's stunning to me that the Congress has not yet sent legislation to the President for his signature to address this important issue
 
Tags: legislation, congress, empower law enforcement, pass legislation, prosecute cyber criminals, crime, criminal code, punishment fits, blog post
 
 
 
 
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Borderline Security

2008-01-29 00:00:00 by Dr. Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...Passport card or PASS (People Access Security Service) card, a new travel document, is slated for issue by the federal government in the spring of this year. A poor cousin to the standard passport, it's more compact and less expensive, but valid only at land and sea points of border entry into the United States, not for air travel. The PASS...
 
Tags: passport card, card, pass card, pass, air travel, poor cousin, federal government, standard passport, travel document
 
 
 
 
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Fly through airport security with Clear, but you don't have less security?

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2008-06-04 12:26:56 by HASH0x8b3dfdc in StillSecure, After All These Years
...passport, etc. This past week my Clear card came in the mail and I have been looking forward to using it I thought that with my background check and all, they knew that I was a low risk for terrorist or other type of activity and therefore would not be subject to the same scrutiny and testing that we all endure when we have to fly. Turns out...
 
Tags: security, security line, airport security program, line, security procedures, background check, check, security obligations, background
 
 
 
 
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Slow removal of child sexual abuse image websites

2008-06-11 14:02:32 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...pass the message on to law enforcement in the relevant country, and that clearly leads to considerable delays. Furthermore, the same parochial attitude appears to be taken by similar organisations in other countries The IWF are a member of INHOPE , an association of child sexual abuse image reporting hotline organisations operating in 29...
 
Tags: image, image websites, websites, child sexual, child, image newsgroups, sites, illegal sites, fake escrow sites
 
 
 
 
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Fly through airport security with Clear, but you don't have less security

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2008-06-04 13:26:24 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...passport, etc. This past week my Clear card came in the mail and I have been looking forward to using it I thought that with my background check and all, they knew that I was a low risk for terrorist or other type of activity and therefore would not be subject to the same scrutiny and testing that we all endure when we have to fly. Turns out...
 
Tags: security, security line, airport security program, line, security procedures, background check, check, security obligations, background
 
 
 
 
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Software Security Metrics and Commentary - Part 2

2007-10-23 20:31:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...pass the CIS guidance or you don't Insecure Storage I don't think the metric of percent encrypted hard drives is really a meaningful metric in this context. If we look at typical web attacks that fall into this category we'd be looking at exploits that leak things like passwords, CC-data, etc. that is stored in an improper manner on the...
 
Tags: security metrics, software security metrics, metrics, software, metrics framework, metric, upstream sdl metrics, concrete metric, paper steve bellovin
 
 
 
 
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EIC 2008: Takeaways from Europe's biggest identity event

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2008-06-13 08:19:15 by Bill Nagel in Security & Risk Management
...pass, building pass, cashless payment card, library card, etc. It will also be required to use any computer, printer, or photocopier connected to the College's network, and will allow lecturers secure access to classroom resources. The College does have the luxury of setting up this system in the context of moving to brand-new facilities, but...
 
Tags: identity, information, information risk management, user-centric identity, iam, iam implementation, effective information security, implement iam, holistic iam context
 
 
 
 
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Auditing open source software

2007-10-08 16:13:00 by Panayiotis Mavrommatis in Google Online Security Blog
 
...pass of the size check. A subsequent additional integer overflow in the allocation of a buffer leads to a heap-based buffer overflow gunzip . In September 2006, my colleague Tavis Ormandy reported some interesting vulnerabilities in the gunzip decompressor. They were triggered when an evil compressed archive is decompressed. A lot of...
 
Tags: image, malicious image file, libtiff image, values, jpeg image, tiff header values, source, evil tiff file, evil